"Happy is he who bears a god within."

-- Louis Pasteur

“Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.”
“Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.”
“The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.”
“If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.”
“I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around.”
“Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.”
“VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.”

Source : "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

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